Vision and experience

Our team

We draw on years of teaching experience and academic research in education, psychology, science, and language studies to foster deep conceptual understanding and genuine engagement.
Our approach to conceptual learning is developed in peer-reviewed research published in The Curriculum Journal.

Maria Karrol

founder & research director

Maria's research explores how the hidden metaphorical structures within complex concepts can be made visible to learners, helping turn disconnected facts into structured, transferable understanding. This approach informs the way TetraTales builds its “big ideas”.

Published in The Curriculum Journal, the peer-reviewed journal of the British Educational Research Association:

Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge. Read the paper →

Alberto Leyva Guerra 

software engineer
(full-stack Wizard I)

Michael Furlong

director & science teacher

Yulia Chechet

founder & entrepreneur